Introduction
NOTE: The data and findings below are drafts subject to change and
some pieces are still in the QA process.
RACE COUNTS provides a 3D view of racial equity:
PERFORMANCE: How
well people are doing. The higher the circle, the better the
performance.
DISPARITY: How racial groups compare to one another.
The further right the circle, the greater the differences by race.
IMPACT: The total population. The bigger the circle, the larger the
population.
Purple counties: Gains at Risk;
Orange counties: Prosperity for
the Few;
Yellow counties:
Struggling to Prosper;
Red counties:
Stuck and Unequal.
Key Findings
Black Californians are significantly more likely to experience
Law Enforcement Use of Force, with a rate 30.5x higher compared to other
groups.
Black Youth experience the greatest racial disparity in arrests
for Status Offenses, being 2.6 times more likely to be arrested for
these offenses compared to White Youth.
The majority of Californians (over 80%) generally feel safe in
their neighborhoods. However, White, SWANA, and Those of Two or More
Races (Non-Latinx) report feeling safer than the state average.
Race/Ethnicity Notes
1) “Other” race includes those who identify with a race outside
of the specifically named categories, such as Asian, White, etc.
2)
Race labels for bar charts: The “nh_” prefix signifies that a group is
non-Latinx (excludes Latinx).
3) The “twoormor” group represents
those who identify as Two or More Races.
Indicators
Crime and Justice Index - UPDATED
- Four out of six Southern California counties are in the Purple
Quadrant (Higher Performance, Lower Disparity). San Bernardino County
experiences lower performance and lower racial disparity rates, while
Los Angeles County experiences lower performance and higher racial
disparity rates.
Incarceration - NOT UPDATED
Scatterplot
- Los Angeles ranks among the counties with the most racial disparity
(rank of 3) but has higher performance - meaning a lower overall
incarceration rate - (rank of 10).
- Sutter is the only county in the Red Quadrant (Higher Disparity,
Lower Performance). Black Californians are 153 times more likely to be
incarcerated as the group with the lowest rate, leading to Sutter being
the second most disparate county in the state on this measure.
- In Yolo County, with the worst racial disparities for incarceration,
Black residents are 355 times more likely to be incarcerated as the
group with the lowest rate.
State Barchart
- Black Californians are 19.5 times more likely to be incarcerated
than the group with the lowest incarceration rate statewide. They are
1.8 times more likely to be incarcerated than even the group with the
next highest rate (non-Latinx AIAN) indicating the extreme racial
disparity facing this group.
Perception of Safety - UPDATED
Scatterplot
El Dorado County is the most racially disparate on this measure,
with 56.1% of its Black residents having a much lower perception of
safety than other groups within the county.
Placer County has the highest perception of safety, but its NHPI
residents report a much lower perception of safety compared to other
groups within the county.
State Barchart
More than 4 out of 5 Californians reported feeling safe in their
neighborhood all or most of the time.
Non-Hispanic Whites, those of Two or More Races (non-Latinx), and
SWANA residents are the only groups who report feeling safer than the
state average.
Arrests for Status Offenses -
UPDATED
Scatterplot
- Nevada County is ranked the most disparate and among the lowest
performing counties in the state for Youth Status Offense Arrests.
State Barchart
- Black Youth face by far the most racial disparity on this measure.
They are 2.6 times more likely to be arrested for status offenses than
White Youth.
Use of Force - UPDATED
Scatterplot
- 9 out the 12 counties in the Red Quadrant (Higher Disparity, Lower
Performance) are in the Northern/Sierra region. Note that we do expect
to see somewhat more extreme higher and lower estimates in counties,
like these, with smaller populations.
State Barchart
- Black Californians are 30.5 times more likely, and Pacific Islander
Californians 27 times more likely, to be subject to Law Enforcement Use
of Force than the group with the lowest rate.
Officer-Initiated Stops - UPDATED
Scatterplot
Most counties are near average when it comes to performance for
this measure.
Alpine County is the most racially disparate for this measure and
is also among the lowest performing because of its high rates of
Officer-Initiated Stops for its Latinx and White residents.
State Barchart
- Pacific Islanders experience officer-initiated stops 2.3 times more
than the state average and 6.1 times more than the group with the lowest
rate.